Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-05-14
NEWS NOTES.

factories haze been Cooked out" owing to
a disagreement about wages.
A fire in one Of the Lshigh and Wilkes
barre company'5 coal mines a Sugar Notch,
Pennsylvania, caused q lOes OF SEQ,
President Cleveland has RENTED the fine
and costs in the case OF Elisha B. Case, who
has just completed 8 two years term at
Joliet for the forgery Of pension vouchers
The vacancy in the Illinois assembly
created by David T. Littlsr's acceptance of
q fat Ofice under the ''hypOcritical admins
tration Of Grover Cleveland viii probably
not be filled, unless a special session Is held
The failure Of the Maiden Greek Iron com
pany OF Reading, Pennsyi vania, with assets
Of $50, 900 and liabilities Of $4,000 Is an
nOuncsd-
The action for absolute divorce brought
in New York against Ross Winans. the Bal
timors millionaire Of Scotch game-preserye
fame has been decided against the plaintln.
The Cincinnati shoe lastsrs and filters who
were locked out Monday forrsfusing to sub
NIT 20 arbitration, reoOnsidered their acts
and gave their consent
It Is reported in the City Of Mexico that
minister representing an European cOuntr5
and countryman or has are about 70 eng
age IN duel about a daughter OF famous
general
A general strike among the miners Of the
Connellsville coke regions Is believed to be
imminent the operators having refused
grant an increase Of wages. The outlook in
the anthracite mixers having demanded an
advance Of 10 per cent, in which they are to
be joined by the miners OF the Scranton re-
gion.
The interstate commerce commissioners
are said to be convinced that It viii not be
safe to make any exceptions in the long and
short haul clause Of the Law.
There is project on foot among Chicago
lumbermen to buy mp large tracts OF south
srn yellow pine forests. Prices are low, and
aHaaHgH to
The surplus in the Canadian treasury is e1-
peoted to be 81, 600 this year.
The assembly Of Primes Edwards Island,
Canada, has passed until coercion resolu-
tions.
The Virginia legislatures finance commit
tee has declined TO accept the terms Of the
British bOndholders.
James L. Harry, a Grand Rapids (Mich.)
mail carrier has been arrested for stealing
letters intrusted to him.
The union steel company of Chicago has
shut down all its works because Of strike
of tWenty-eight drillers, clippers and flers.
The fire underwriters of Boston have
voluntarily reduced the insurance rates on
property In that city.
One miner vas killed and another fatally
crushed by fall Of coal in mine at Wiles
barre, Pa,
Charles j. Faulkner has been elected
United States senator from West Virginia
TO succeed Camden The new senator is an
j.. +. v, jurist of the high reputation,
and said to be man OF excellent ability.
he was chosen, OF course, as dem ocra5,"
but whether he is a prOtectiOnist or free
trader, a civil service refOrmer or a spOils-
man. a sOund-monev man or silver crank
does not appear. His party label gives no
olsW whatever to his views upon any of the
positions of the day.
+. NJ. White, president Of the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad, died in Memphis.
Jonas O. Clarke OF Worcester, Mass, who
has hoeralIy endowed a new college TO be
located there aud named after him, proposes
to make further gifts Of abNut 81 OOO. 900, in
GLIDING an art collection valued at $500, 600
The western whisky pool, at me- citing in
Chicago resolved to reduce the price cent
per gallon and take other steps to night the
anti pool distil cries.
It Is reported at AvOoa. IA. that DR.. John
Bruil, who recently killed himself in the
Jail at DodgCville, Wis, was DIR. John Ben
der Jr.. one OF the notorious Bender family
or Kansas.
Assistant Secretary Maynard Of the treas
ury department has decided that Canadian
railway contractors can not take their i'm
pleInents an horses across the line without
playing duties.
Assistant treasurer and secretary James
M. Ham, of the Union Pacific railroad, Was
bsfoye the Pacific rail way commission His
memory, like that of Sidney Dillon proved
very treacherous, and his testimony Was not
highly important The ignorance OF the
Urion Pacific officials about the AFFAIRS of
their company, as revealed BY the investiga-
tiOns Is certainly amazing.
The steamer Asia has been lost in the
mediterranean with number OF passsn-
gers
There ia a cloud over the relations between
Italy and Spain, caused by the threatened
establishment by the latter of a coaling sta
ton in the Red sea on a spot claimed by
Italy. The Rome government has asked an
explanation" Of Spain.
A Vienna jeweler has, 1t is said, been com
missiOnad by the Orleans family to bid for
the French crown jewels. It's long odds,
however, that Mrs Maokay or some other
American paTvenu Outbids him.
Joseph Compton, a member OF the Ala
bama legislature, proves to be an escaped
convict f4om the North Carolina peniten-
tiarys where he was sentenced in 1874 for
twenty fOu- years for murder. he has fed
from his home in Alabama to gvOid arrest.
Louisville comes to the front with a
prodigy Of Judicial acumen IN the person OF
a magis' rate named S.Ofer. John j.. Cor
nelson, who was serving a three year, jail
sentence for the assault upon Judge Reid
which caused the latter's 8 icids, was
brought before Stofsr u a writ Of habeas
corpus, and ordered released on the ground
that his conviction vas illegal. As the ludg-
ment against Corneilaon } ad been affirmed
By the court OF appeals, the magistrates
presumption amazes the public, and Will
likely get him into trouble.